Green Cloud Computing Recommendation System

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the visualization of the existing datacenter and the recommended subset of candidate cloud-based computing frameworks comprises geographical representations of a location of the existing datacenter and a location of each the recommended subset of candidate cloud-based computing frameworks.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the location of the respective candidate cloud computing framework corresponds to one or more of a city or town within which the respective candidate cloud-based computing framework is located, a state or province within which the respective candidate cloud-based computing framework is located, and a country within which the respective candidate cloud-based computing framework is located.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the one or more cloud-based computing frameworks are associated with respective cloud service providers (CSPs).